Thinking of doing home made lift kit

[00srad600]

Ok well my first thing I would have to be ext radius arms that a can do going to build them into my new tranny mount. But I think just coil spacers and shocks won't fit my 36's inch tires. I think I'm going to need new longer axle brackets I'm not going to pay skyjacker or something but I would like to know if the how the holes for the axle to bolt to go down if it's just strate down or to a angle any help

[Bennybooster]

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There is a current build that someone built their own brackets in, search and find it

[lil_Blue_Ford]

If you're not an experienced fabricator and a good welder (with a 220/240v welder), I would pass on trying to make the drop brackets. You don't have to buy an entire suspension lift kit from a company, but you can buy drop brackets by themselves for the front axle pivots.

To clear 36" tires you will need a lot of lift. I would say more than a 6" suspension lift unless you want to cut most of your fenders off. You'll probably still need to trim the fenders even with 6 or 7" of lift.

I'm in the process of putting 35's on my choptop with a sort of home-fab lift. I bought axle pivot drop brackets and lift springs awhile back to fab up a lift. Now I'm swapping to a heavier front axle and re-doing some stuff. I got the axle pivot drops I needed, got some 3" lift coils, used an F-150 spring perch and some extended radius arms to get me ~5" of lift out front. I also had to use a drop pitman arm(bought) and extended brake lines. For the back I did explorer leaf packs with an extra leaf and chevy drop shackles to get it sitting roughly level. Then I added a 2" body lift when I did my body mounts, for a total of roughly 7" of lift as cheaply as possible. It still cost me, IIRC I spent $130 getting the drop brackets and coils (used), $50 on the extended brake lines, $55 on the F-150 spring perches, $50 on the drop shackles, $75 on the leafs (I broke apart two sets of packs and built my custom packs), $40 on the extended arms (a guy did me a favor), $100 on shocks, and around $220 on the body lift and body mount bushings.

Now I'm adding another $300 or so to make new extended arms, trans x-member, and a braced front TTB axle.

All of my information on doing the lift? Yea, I searched around on here, the information can be found (a lot of it is in the tech archives).

[whissiswheelin]

send me your email address for the templates

check out my budget build for an idea what they look like.
edit: the templates i have are for a 4 inch drop you would need to extend them to fit 36's